The Returns to Entrepreneurship

The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Åstebro, Thomas ^a  

^a HEC PARIS   (France)

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Empirical literature; Entrepreneurial choice; Entrepreneurship; Financial returns; Observed variation; Rate of return

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EID: 84923239264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391244.013.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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